29.08.2011
Health Promotion and System Strengthening (HPSS) Project
We are pleased to announce the signing of the contract for a mandate to implement the HPSS project in the Dodoma Region of Tanzania. The first phase of the project will be funded by the Swiss Government through the SDC with 8.8M Swiss Francs over a 3.5 year period. It supports the Government of Tanzania in an integrated systems development approach and will pilot innovative methods in seven districts of the Dodoma Region. Major components of the project are:
- Health promotion: developing activities to address major health problems at community level
- Health insurance development: transforming Community Health Funds into viable social health insurance schemes
- Comprehensive supply-side health systems strengthening, including support for management of finances, medicines, equipment and infrastructure
- Mainstreaming of gender, HIV/AIDS and social inclusion, as well as comprehensive operational research for all project activities
The Health Systems and Economics Unit of the Swiss TPH will head the project, integrating the skills and expertise of all four units of the Swiss Centre for International Health (SCIH), and will be backstopped by the Epidemiology and Public Health Department. Strategic partnerships with the Micro-Insurance Academy, Bonn/Delhi and the Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, will further strengthen the project team.
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